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From:  Jason Mann

Subject: ALN ANNOUNCEMENTS - Jan 2000

ANNOUNCEMENT 1: EMAILING LIST
ANNOUNCEMENT 2: ALN CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT 3: NEWEST ALN WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCEMENT 4: JOURNAL OF ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORKS
ANNOUNCEMENT 5: ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORK MAGAZINE
ANNOUNCEMENT 6: ALN TALK


Greetings everyone.  We had a slight problem right before the New Year.
Our oldest server, which contained our latest emailing database, suddenly
went out on us.  Two drives failed due to a bad RAID controller resulting
in losing all information.  Luckily we had a backup, unfortunately the
backup was not updated for a while.  This failure gave the ALN the 
opportunity to re-arrange our emailing system, so to start things off I 
am including announcements from the latest offerings on our site



ANNOUNCEMENT 1: EMAILING LIST

TO ADD your personal email to our mailing list, please visit,
http://www.netlearning.org/alnemail/email.cfm



ANNOUNCEMENT 2: ALN CONFERENCE

HOLD THE DATE -- ALN 2000 will take place November 3-5 at the University
of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center located in the
suburbs of Washington, D.C. The planning committee will soon issue a
call for proposals. Details will be posted on the Conference web site as
soon as they are available -- http://www.aln.org/alnconf2000



ANNOUNCEMENT 3: NEWEST ALN WORKSHOP

ALN Workshop: "Getting Started Creating Online Courses - FrontPage2000" 
Spring 2000 session: February 21 - April 14, 2000. Register now! at
http://www.netlearning.org/gs-spring2000/

This workshop includes 4 modules that can be taken as a package or 
individually:  
 Module 1: Basics (HTML and  FrontPage 2000 basics) 
 Module 2: Advanced FrontPage (more advanced features of FrontPage 2000 
    such as forms, frames, themes, etc.) 
 Module 3: Database Management *PC only (Setting up the database 
    connection, submitting to a database, displaying database results, 
	searching a database, passing parameters)  
 Module 4: Advanced Media (multimedia documents, discussion forums) 

This workshop is geared to show you what is currently going on in the
area of online courses, and walk you through the steps to produce
your own course using Microsoft FrontPage.  You get your own
development space on a FrontPage server while you are in the course.
A large part of the workshop involves interacting in an online conference
setting with other participants (typically around 100) and the workshop
facilitators who give excellent feedback and support.



ANNOUNCEMENT 4: JOURNAL OF ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORKS

Read the newest issue of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. 
JALN Volume 3, Issue 2 - November 1999
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jaln-vol3issue2.htm

In This Issue:
- Intelligent Agents for Online Learning
- Copyright Dot Com: The Digital Millennium in Copyright
- Keeping Online Asynchronous Discussion on Topic
- Using ALNs to Support a Complete Educational Experience
- Design of Net-learning System Based on Experiential Learning
- Successful Online Teaching Using An Asynchronous Learner 
  Discussion Forum
- The Effects of Internet-Based Instruction on Student Learning

If you would like to submit an article please take a look at
Submit an abstract to the JALN or ALN Magazine 
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/abstract_subm.htm
and Guidelines
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/publish_guide.htm

The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) is published 
on-line by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Center. Responsibility 
for the contents rests upon the authors and not upon Vanderbilt 
University. 
Copyright © 1999 by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Center. 
All rights reserved.
 


ANNOUNCEMENT 5: ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORK MAGAZINE

ALN Magazine Volume 3, Issue 1 - July 1999 
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/maga_v3_i1.htm

Featuring:
               Case Studies
- Organizational Issues in ALN
- ALN in a Small On-campus Engineering Class
- The Making of a Virtual Professor
- Case Study of Teaching An Urban Design Course On Two Campuses 
  Simultaneously
- Using Web-based Distance Education Tools to Promote Health Care Research in Developing Countries

              Software Tools
- The WebTester and the Linear Algebra WebNotes
- Quest Net+ An Authoring System

If you would like to submit an article please take a look at
Submit an abstract to the JALN or ALN Magazine 
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/abstract_subm.htm
and Guidelines
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/publish_guide.htm

The Asynchronous Learning Networks  Magazine (ALN Magazine) is published 
on-line by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Web. Responsibility for the 
contents rests upon the authors and not upon Vanderbilt University. 
Copyright © 1999 by Vanderbilt University for the ALN Web. All rights 
reserved.



ANNOUNCEMENT 6: ALN TALK

Due to the server being down our ALNTalk series was interrupted just as
we posted it, so many of you could not access the conference.  The 
following is a repost of the original email.

Why ALN in Academe? - free new ALN online discussion
   
The ALN Center invites you to join in a free new online discussion:
"Why ALN in Academe?"

You can join the discussion at:
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/alntalk

Here is a note from the moderator, J. Olin Campbell:

Why ALN in Academe? There may be different (but sometimes overlapping)
answers for faculty and for administrators. Faculty may like the additional
ways to communicate with learners and the additional learning tools that
ALN provides, in relation to the classroom. For example, it is easy to
refer learners to other sites that contain content-relevant information. In
some cases, free tutorials are available (e.g., one of the many "Internet
101" sites for those getting started with the Internet itself). These sites
can save the instructor time in relation to creating everything new. 
Administrators may like the ability to reach a new market of learners--and
want to move fast to avoid someone else taking away their market. 
BUT . . . 
Faculty may also feel threatened because developing online learning is
typically an intense process that may involve many people and much faculty
development time. The faculty member may feel loss of control of the
course, especially if the school administration says they own the course.
On the other hand faculty may feel happy if they receive additional income
from sales or licensing of the course. 
Administrators may feel threatened if another school or for-profit company
provides competing courses and programs that have content authored by "name
brand" stars in the field, high production values, and cost less. 
What are the issues as you see them? 

If you have already participated in ALNTalk, you will need to select
"Options" and click on the new forum to add it to the list of forums you
can view.

ALNTalk is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

J. Olin Campbell, IPT
150 MCKB (P.O. Box 25089) 
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
voice: (801) 378-1171
fax: (801) 378-8672





Thank you for your time and interest in ALN.

Jason Mann
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